Re: [Ltru] Test suite for language tags?
Addison Phillips <addison@yahoo-inc.com> Fri, 04 August 2006 15:20 UTC
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Doug Ewell wrote: > > Just a few minor nits here. This is slightly more complex than meets > the eye, unfortunately. Yep. > >> - singletons in the first position (except for 'x' and the >> grandfathered list) > > Sadly, the existence of the grandfathered list means that all > well-formed processors must also do a limited amount of validity > checking. I don't question the importance of maintaining support for > the grandfathered tags, but this is a side effect. Agreed: all RFC 3066bis processors have to have the list of grandfathered tags baked in. > >> - missing subtag ("--") >> - a dangling hyphen ("foo-bar-baz-") or initial hyphen ("-foo-bar-baz") > > The second is really just a special case of the first: a missing subtag > at the end or beginning, respectively. One thing I found useful, when > building my validator, was to parse out the subtags first and check them > for validity afterward, so the hyphens never become part of the validity > checking per se. I did the same thing. However, one must check the hyphens. Tokenizers sometimes do not return "empty" tokens and can miss these cases. > >> "ab-x-abc-x-abc" // anything goes after x > > Not quite anything, of course: 1*("-" (1*8alphanum)) Yes. At least one alphanumeric subtag must follow 'x' and it cannot exceed eight characters in length. Addison -- Addison Phillips Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc. Internationalization is an architecture. It is not a feature. _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
- [Ltru] Test suite for language tags? Stephane Bortzmeyer
- Re: [Ltru] Test suite for language tags? Addison Phillips
- Re: [Ltru] Test suite for language tags? Mark Davis
- [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Stephane Bortzmeyer
- [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Stephane Bortzmeyer
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Mark Davis
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Mark Davis
- [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Addison Phillips
- [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Doug Ewell
- [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Doug Ewell
- Re: [Ltru] Test suite for language tags? Doug Ewell
- Re: [Ltru] Test suite for language tags? Addison Phillips
- [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Stephane Bortzmeyer
- [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Stephane Bortzmeyer
- [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Doug Ewell
- [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Frank Ellermann
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? John Cowan
- [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Stephane Bortzmeyer
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? John Cowan
- [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Doug Ewell
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Addison Phillips
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? John Cowan
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Addison Phillips
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Addison Phillips
- [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Stephane Bortzmeyer
- [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Addison Phillips
- [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Stephane Bortzmeyer
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? John Cowan
- [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Frank Ellermann
- [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Frank Ellermann
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Addison Phillips
- [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Addison Phillips
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? John Cowan
- [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Stephane Bortzmeyer
- [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Frank Ellermann
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Addison Phillips
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Martin Duerst
- [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Stephane Bortzmeyer
- [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Frank Ellermann
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Martin Duerst
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Addison Phillips
- [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Frank Ellermann
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Martin Duerst
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Mark Davis
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Martin Duerst
- [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Stephane Bortzmeyer
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Mark Davis
- [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Mark Davis
- [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Mark Davis
- [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Doug Ewell
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Mark Davis
- Re: [Ltru] Re: zh-hakka Doug Ewell
- [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Stephane Bortzmeyer
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? John Cowan
- [Ltru] Re: zh-hakka Doug Ewell
- [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Doug Ewell
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Addison Phillips
- Re: [Ltru] Re: zh-hakka Addison Phillips
- [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Stephane Bortzmeyer
- [Ltru] Re: zh-hakka Frank Ellermann
- [Ltru] Re: zh-hakka Frank Ellermann
- [Ltru] Region subtag changes John Cowan
- [Ltru] Re: Region subtag changes Doug Ewell
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Region subtag changes John Cowan
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Region subtag changes Doug Ewell
- Re: [Ltru] Re: zh-hakka David Conrad
- [Ltru] Re: zh-hakka Stephane Bortzmeyer
- [Ltru] Re: zh-hakka Frank Ellermann
- Re: [Ltru] Re: zh-hakka Doug Ewell
- [Ltru] Re: zh-hakka Frank Ellermann
- Re: [Ltru] Re: zh-hakka David Conrad
- RE: [Ltru] Re: zh-hakka Debbie Garside
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- [Ltru] Re: zh-hakka Frank Ellermann
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- [Ltru] Re: Available parsers? (Was: Test suite fo… Doug Ewell
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Martin Duerst
- [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Stephane Bortzmeyer
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags? Mark Davis